Cooking-stove



T BENT Cooking Stove.

Patented June. 5, 1844.7

THOMAS BENT, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.,

ASSIGNOR TO IN. & R. P. RESOR, OF CINCINNATI,

OHIO.

COOKING-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 3,613, dated June 5, 1844.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS BENT, late ofCincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, now of the cityand county of New York, have made a new and useful Improvement in theManner of Constructing Double-Oven Cooking-Stoves; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

In my stove there are two ovens, one of them situated above the other.The lower oven with its flues, occupies the whole space between thefront and back plates of the stove, and the upper oven occupies thatpart of the stove which is immediately in the rear of the fire chamber.In these respects my stove resembles several others that have beenpreviously constructed; but it differs from all those which have comeunder my examination in the arrangement of the fines by which said ovenare heated; there not being any portion of the draft of heated air fromthe fire chamber allowed to pass between the bottom of the upper, andthe top of the lower oven, the space between them, which in other stovesthat are similar to this in the location of the ovens, constitutes aflue space, being in my stove used as a heated air chamber only, thedraft being prevented from passing through it by means of a partitionclosing it at its rear end. By this arrangement it has been found thatthe bottom of the lower oven is more perfectly heated than in otherdouble oven stoves; while the air chamber is perfectly effective inheating that of the upper.

The accompanying drawing represents my stove with one of its sidesremoved for the purpose of showing the arrangement of the tines.

A, is the lower, and B, the upper oven. 0, is the back plate of the firechamber, over are not to be used.

which the draft from the fire passes; and descending in the flue-spacebetween this and the lower oven it comes into contact with the upperplate of the latter; but it does not pass between the two ovens, therebeing a partition at D, which closes the space E, so as to prevent alldraft through it, while it is still left as a receptacle for heated air.The draft from the space at the back of the fire chamber in consequenceof the foregoing arrangement is forward, immediately under said chamber,then down through the space F, and under the lower oven, to the rear endof the stove, and up to the exit pipe G.

There is a damper, shown by dotted lines, which is situated within thespace between the upper plate of the stove, and the top oven plate, bymeans of which a direct draft from the fire chamber to the exit pipe maybe established; and this is to be done when the fire is first lighted,or when the ovens This damper does not differ in its form or action fromsuch as are in common use.

Having thus fully described the manner in which I construct my cookingstove, what I claini therein as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

The manner in which the flue spaces therein. are arranged and governed,so as to convert that part which is usually employed as a flue spacebetween the two ovens, into a heated air space, by means of thepermanent partition D. The whole arrangement of the fines and theircombination with the other parts being such as is herein described andrepresented.

THOMAS BENT.

lVitnesses A. WVRIGHT, AMHFRs'r WVRIGHT, J r.

